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NITED STATES y PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID D. TOAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARBAGE-RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,750, dated December 5, 1882.

l Application filed September 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DAVID D. Toni., M. D., a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Garbage-Receptacles. of which the following is a specitication.

This invention consists in a garbage-receptacle in which are combined a box having a ro perforated bottom and a casing to such box,

which is provided with a side door `'and with cleats adapted to support the box, andthe bottom of which is inclined toward one of its sides, so that when the box is put into place the i5 liquid garbage drains therefrom onto the bottom of the casing, and, flowing to the lowest point thereof, is permitted to escape. For the purpose of accommodatingtwo boxes the casin g is divided into two compartments, and with it zo Vis, combined a liquid-discharge pipe common to both compartments. The casing, moreover, has a double lid, and in the upperedge of the partition which separates the compartments is a longitudinal groove for catching rain-water,

z 5 as hereinafter more fully set forth.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view, partlyin section, showin g the doors open.

`.Fig 2 is a horizontal section on the line w n 3o Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a vertical cross-section on the line y y, Fig. 2, the doors being closed.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. VThe letterA designates two boxes, each having a perforated bottom, A', and B a casing B' B, one to each of the boxes. One side of the casing B is left open, and is provided with a double door, C, having its parts hinged to swing horizontally away from each other; but in case a single 4o compartment only is used this door also is made singly. To opposite sides of each compartment B B of the casing are fastened cleats D, which are on a corresponding level to each other, so that if the boxes are placed into the compartments upon the cleatsthey are supported by that means, leaving the bottom of the casingentirely free. Said bottom of the casing is inclined in both compartments B B, and the direction of such inclination is 5o toward that side of the compartments formed by the partition E, which separates the compartments. To the front or open side of the casing is connected a pipe, F, which communicates with both compartments B' B, opposite to the lowest point thereof, the double door being partly cut away, as at g g, to clear-the pipe. The top ofthe casing, like the front side thereof, is left open, and it is provided with a double lid, H, the parts of which are hinged to the back or rear side of the casing and meet in the line of the partition E. The upper edge of this partit-ion E is provided with'a groove, which extends the entire length thereof.

1t will be seen that when the boxes A are put into place the liquid garbage drains therereceived on the inclined bottom of the casing in the respective compartments, whence the liquid Hows "to the lowest points of such bottom and discharges through the pipe F, andif the apparatus is placed in the proper position on the sidewalk this pipe may be made to empty into the gutter.

The object of providing the casing with the double lid H is to facilitate access to its compartments, and vwhen the receptacle is exposed to rain or snow-as on a sidewalk-the water that may leak through between the parts of the lid is caught in the groove i, whereby it is conducted to the front edge of the partition E, so as to escape without entering the compartments. The casing is provided with detlectors o on the upper edge of each compartment B B", such deflectors extendinginward over the upper edges of the boxes A ou an inclined plane, so that the garbage which is thrown into the boxes through the top of the casin gis prevented from getting into the latter between it and the boxes, which is a desideratum.

In some cases the bottom of each ofthe boxes A is inclined toward the front of the casing, and in that event such bottom need be perforated only near the lowest point and not throughout. The bottom of the casing, moreover, may be inclined toward the front as well as to one side thereof; or, in other words, it may be diagonally inclined.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore described, of a box having a perforated bottom, and a casing to such a box which is IOO provided with a side door and with cleats for supporting the boX, and the bottom of Which is inclined toward one side thereof, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with boxes each having a perforated bottom, of the casing having two compartments, one to eachl box, and having its bottom inclined toward one side thereof in both compartments, the box-supporting cleats fastened to the casing` on opposite sides of the compartments, and the liquid-discharge pipe common to both'eompartinents,for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the casing having two com- 4E. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with the box or boxes, of the casing having its upper edge provided with detlectors which project inward over the upper edge of the boxes,for the purpose specified. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID D. TOAL. lL. s] Witnesses:

WILLIAM ToWLE, GHAs. W AHLERs. 

